Adjusting and responding to language and behaviour for various purposes in the classroom and wider school community, for example by asking and responding to questions, and indicating understanding
Elaborations
asking for repetition and clarification, for example:
WHAT?
What was that?
PLEASE AGAIN SIGN
Please sign that again.
WHAT MEAN?
What do you mean?
responding to instructions when completing work or preparing for class
adopting different roles for effective group or pair-work interactions, such as group leader, note taker or reporter
using appropriate protocols when gaining the attention of a group, such as flashing lights, waving, multiple tapping or foot stomping in some contexts, waiting for eye contact or pauses in signing and using language such as EXCUSE or SORRY INTERRUPT or QUICK INTERRUPT when interrupting a conversation
responding appropriately to impromptu or more formal class and school announcements, such as assembly procedures
indicating understanding, for example:
RIGHT-YEAH
Aaah, right.
clarifying points of information, for example by asking:
PRO2 MEAN…?
Do you mean …?
THAT RIGHT?
Is that right?
…RIGHT PRO1?
… am I right?
using eye contact and clear signing with peers, teachers, visitors and community members
using an increasing range of interaction skills, such as initiating, maintaining and changing topics, remaining on task and taking turns in conversations
understanding how to walk between signers engaged in conversation without interrupting
developing appropriate conversational behaviours such as sharing ideas, acknowledging and extending others’ contributions and making use of discourse markers, fillers and NMFs, such as:
SURPRISE
oooh (with appropriate intonation)
INCREDIBLE
No way!
WOW
Wow!
UM
um
understanding and producing phrases to encourage and praise each other, for example, GOOD, EXCELLENT, CONGRATULATIONS
VCASFC021 | Languages | Auslan | First Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Socialising
VCJAU032
Understand the systematic nature of Japanese language and grammatical forms, and explore how to use/combine these elements to express complex ideas
Elaborations
further developing metalanguage to describe and apply grammatical concepts and language elements, and to organise learning resources such as verb charts and lists of vocabulary and sentence structures
understanding and applying the rules of the plain form, and knowing that the basic form of all Japanese verbs ends in -u, -eru or -iru, as listed in dictionaries
understanding that verbs can be divided into three groups according to the way they are conjugated: Group 1 (five-step verbs), Group 2 (one-step verbs) and Group 3 (irregular verbs)
using character charts as a systematic framework that enables recognition of verb conjugation patterns, and applying the formation rules of each verb group
understanding and using a range of particles such as:
か (or)
に (purpose, indirect object, location)
で (location of action, by means such as ペンで、 日本語で)
understanding and using いand な adjectives in the present and past tense
using verb stems with grammatical features such as ~たい、 ~ たくない、 ~ かった、 ~ やすい/にくいです
understanding and using verbてforms to express a range of ideas, for example, ~ている、 ~てもいいです、 ~てはいけません、 ~てはだめです
creating cohesion and flow by using conjunctions, for example, だから、 それで、 それに、 verbてform, だから、 しかし、 それに、 けれども
expressing opinions, intentions and thoughts using the plain form, for example, ~つもりです、 ~とおもいます、 ~たり~たりします
asking and responding to questions using 何で? どうして/なぜ? どのぐらい? いくつ?
building vocabulary that relates to daily life and the world beyond school and home and that can be used for cross-curricular content learning
elaborating ideas or statements using expressions such as 今しゅう、 先しゅう、 来年、 いつも、 ぜんぜん、 あまり
understanding Japanese counting systems using units of 10, 100, 1000 and 10,000 and associated kanji, for example, 百 、 千、 万
extending the use of counter classifiers to include ~円、 ~分、 ~まい、 ~本、 ~つ、 ~日 (date)
expressing superlative forms using 一番、 for example, 一番好きなかもくは日本語です。
expressing the location of items by using prepositions such as 右、 左、 前、 後ろ、 上、 下、 となり、 そば
understanding and using plain or polite forms as appropriate to context, for example, understanding the concept of uchi-soto (内/外) for making appropriate choices of register
VCJAU032 | Languages | Japanese | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10 | Understanding | Systems of language